Word: peglerizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since Westbrook Pegler is almost always attacking somebody, his attacks are sometimes embarrassingly ill-timed. Last week Pegler chose to belabor Navy Secretary Frank Knox; he was sore because Publisher Knox had "suppressed" Pegler's syndicated column in the Chicago Daily News (TIME, April 24). The reasons, according to Pegler: 1) the Daily News would print nothing unfavorable to Marshall Field because his Chicago Sun is a tenant of the News building; it would print nothing favorable to the Sun's powerful morning adversary, Colonel Robert Rutherford McCormick and his Chicago Tribune...
...Daily News printed the Pegler column - its first in many weeks. Over it (on Page One) was a statement by Editor Paul Scott Mowrer...
...discontinuing Mr. Pegler's column. . . . We have spoken highly of Mr. Pegler in the past. We believed in him. We were his cosponsors. We have repeatedly applauded his exposures of crooks and racketeers. If his judgment equaled his courage he would be a great newspaper man. . . . Mr. Pegler has developed antipathies of such violence that he has allowed his feelings to overcome his reasoning power. When the disease becomes chronic, it is serious. Take, for example, the Pegler column today...
...Pegler complains that when he wrote ... in blame of Mr. Field, and in praise of Mr. Field's rival [Colonel McCormick], the Daily News omitted his column. This is true. I killed the columns myself. ... If he had written one-sidedly in praise of Field and in blame of McCormick, my decision would have been the same...
...News replaced Pegler with Phil S. Hanna, ousted by Marshall Field two months ago after he had opposed the Sun's (and the Administration's) view on the soldier-vote issue. The News continued to pay for Pegler's columns, thus left him without a stage in the nation's second city...